In Augustin's posthumous sale, 19-21 December 1839, there was a painting of a young bacchante by Greuze which was almost certainly the basis for this miniature. It was probably similar to Greuze, 'Bacchante', P407). Although the girl in this miniature does not wear a leopard's skin, one of the traditional attributes of bacchantes (the female followers of Bacchus, the god of wine), she is identifiable as a bacchante from her abandoned pose and the vine eaves in her hair.